Improvement in lamp-burners



E. E TOWNSEND. lLan-'mp Burner.

No. 202,074. Patented April 2, 1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD E. TOWNSEND, OF THIBODEAUX, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD HIS RIGHT 'ITO HEROULE DANSREAU, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAM P-BU RNERS.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l202,074, dated Aprn 2, 1878; application nieu February 11, .1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. TowNsEND, of Thibodeaux, in the parish of La Fourche, and in the State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp- Burners; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingl drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this speciiication.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of a coal-oil lamp with an auxiliary wick-tube and wick to be used for lighting the main wick, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to de.

scribe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawing, which is a vertical section, and which makes a part of this specification, A represents the cap of any ordinary coal-oil lamp, which is hinged to the body of the burner at b. B represents 4the body, which screws into the top of the lamp,

' and which is constructed in any of the wellknown and usual ways. O represents the main wick-tube, the wick of which is raised and lowered in the usual manner. D represents an auxiliary wick-tube, which is made to contain a very small wick, and one that will make a very small flame. The upper end of this tube drolps a little below, and is curved, as shown at a, toward, the mouth of the main wick-tube,

ble of lighting the large wick as soon as it is y -turned up.

` I am aware that lamps have been provided with two or more separate wick-tubes, one of which is smaller than the other, to receive a taper, and do not claim such, broadly, as my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the main wick-tube O of a lamp-burner and its wick therein, the supplemental Wick-tube D, of smaller size, having its upper end curved at a toward the main wicktube, and provided with a wick independently raised and lowered, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set ,my hand this 16th day of EDW. E. TOWNSEND.

January, 1878.

Witnesses C. A. EUerERRAN,` E. N. BRAND. 

